A different kind of dentures that track tongue movement aids research on robotic speech and braces and could also revolutionize linguistics.

Congressional watchdog GAO now tweets notices of its products to followers and posts videos on YouTube. Welcome to the 21st century GAO!

The car with a license tag 'fluent' makes me wonder, what language?

The dialect of politics is doublespeak and with the right words can justify anything from adultery to xenophobia. Translation is impossible.

Securitization: doublespeak for financial alchemy, which turns gold into lead and transfers the risk to those who cant be held accountable.

Imagine a language where the only counting words are few, some, or many. This dispells the notion that numbers are basic to human cognition.

Computer analysis of ancient Indus script suggests it has grammatical structure but some linguists think the symbols are just cute pictures.

Flight attendant: Ma'am I need you to just turn off your book. We are getting ready to land.

London ATM: Please enter your Huckleberry Finn and wait while we read your bladder of lard. Your sausage and mash will be dispensed shortly.

Happy b-day jazz sax man and lexist Les Young who played cool licks, named Lady Day, had eyes for the does, and spent rather than ate bread.

Answer: 97%. Question: What percent of Ohio elementary students don't study a 2nd language? What percent of Asian & European students do?

US Sec/State condemned indiscriminate killing/raping in Guinea. So would she condone it if perpetrators discriminated who they kill or rape?

Deaf/blind at 2 Hellen Keller did not acquire language until 7. She earned a BA from Radcliffe at 24. A statue in US capitol now honors her.

10-codes used for emergency communication may soon be 10-7 (out of service). Agencies cite confusion caused by using different code sets.

Sink or swim? A study found many LA English language learners entering mainstream classes become better students than English only speakers.

Is this sentence possible? “The house I had had had had a swimming pool.” Yes, if I once had the house and the house once had a pool.

Air puffs we make with t&p help listeners hear with their skin. When coupled with air puffs, listeners heard 'puffless' sounds b&d as t&p.